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Stay with Me, My Soul

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Stay with Me, My Soul is a reprint of Dušan Šarotar’s 2011 novel. The love story it tells, set in the aftermath of the Second World War, is like a “soul” itself—timeless, meaningful, and elusive, like clouds in the sky.

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No. of pages: 148
Year of publication: 2024
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About the Book

The poetic story of the beautiful Ela from Šalovci and a young Jew from Lendava is set aboard a ship sailing from Europe to Canada at the end of the Second World War—a ship as a symbol of painful flight and longing for the unknown, which might at least seemingly soften wounded souls bound by the shared fate of the Prekmurje Jews of that time. Interwoven with their story is that of Julius Schönauer, a Jewish photographer from Šalovci, to whom the book is also dedicated. In 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz together with other Prekmurje Jews and, after being ordered to photograph the bloodshed there, was executed. Before that, however, he turned his camera toward the clouds, “as if he were searching only for souls, for a life that had despaired of the earth.”

(Jasna Vombek)

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Dušan Šarotar

Dušan Šarotar (1968) is a writer, poet, translator, screenwriter and photographer. The central theme of his recent works is the fate of the Jewish community and the Holocaust in Prekmurje. His novels, Biljard v Dobrayu (Billiards at the Hotel Dobray), Panorama and Zvezdna karta (Star Chart) were all nominated for the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year in Slovenia and translated into numerous languages. In 2023 he received the Župančič Award for his novel Zvezdna karta (Star Chart). The English editions of Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the novel Panorama was on the longlist for the 2018 Dublin Literary Award and received the Cesar-Lopez Cuadras Award in 2017. His poems and prose have been featured in Slovenian and foreign anthologies and translated into several languages. Šarotar is the author of numerous scripts for documentary and feature films and portraits of Slovenian artists. In 2012 Šarotar began developing and exhibiting his photographic series Duše (Souls). His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Murska Sobota Gallery. His last work, Nicomachus Reports, is a mix of poetry and prose, exploring memory, sadness, feeling and the human soul, approached with a poetic of slowness, characterised by descriptions of nature, cities and a specific atmosphere in which the author places his protagonists.